'I, Tonya' and 'Call Me By Your Name' were among the other winners and runners-up.

The Toronto International Film Festival drew to a close yesterday (and oh yes, you can read all of our coverage here) with the announcement of the festival’s awards, which included a couple of curveballs. The People’s Choice Award is the most high-profile prize of the festival; previous winners have included Amelie, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Hotel Rwanda, Precious, Silver Linings Playbook, The Imitation Game, Room, La La Land, and future Best Picture Oscar winners American Beauty, Slumdog Millionaire, The King’s Speech, and 12 Years a Slave.

This year’s winner is Martin McDonagh’s extraordinary Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, a small, character-driven comedy/drama that outgunned such high-profile titles as The Shape of Water, Battle of the Sexes, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and runners-up Call Me By Your Name and I, Tonya. And a similar upset occurred in the documentary category, where Faces Places, a free-wheeling, low-budget title from non-fiction legend Agnès Varda and her new collaborator JR took the People’s Choice prize. It will next play at the New York Film Festival; Three Billboards will open November 10 in limited release.